The high-profile opponents of the Voice to Parliament both posted Stewart Lingiari's photo to social media, but he says he has no relation to the famous land rights activist. Via NITV
No campaigners Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine both wrongly identified a man as Vincent Lingiari's grandson.A Millwarparra man has said he did not know what the Voice to Parliament was when he was filmed reading anti-Voice sentiments that were written for him.
But the Millwarparra man said he only repeated words that were handed to him after an unrelated meeting in Canberra. After the meeting, Mr Lingiari said that he and several others were handed pieces of paper with the anti-Voice rhetoric and asked to recite them before cameras. Despite Stewart Lingiari's insistence that he had no connection whatsoever with the Gurindji legend, Mr Mundine said the confusion was down to a misunderstanding of Aboriginal culture.
"We stood in front of 20 to 30 media people, and this is how it was introduced. So if anyone is making claims they didn't know what it was about, they should have said something then," he said.However, another attendee at the March Canberra meeting, Sammy Ponto said that the group had been "surprised" that constitutional recognition came up.He also corroborated Mr Lingiari's description of the written quotes.
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